
I thought I had already written about all my favorite "K-pop and J-pop girl groups that are good and also have a bit of quirk to them", but apparently I've never mentioned Orange Caramel on this site? When I wrote about which K-pop groups are/were timeless (and not) back in 2022, I mentioned Girlsâ [âŠ]

För nĂ„gra Ă„r sedan sĂ„ var min största hobby att lyssna pĂ„ album hela dagarna och betygsĂ€tta dem i skala 1-10 pĂ„ rateyourmusic.com. Indierock-albumet "Svart Flagg" av Magnus Ekelund & StĂ„let (senare kĂ€nd som same-rapparen Kitok) var det första som jag gav 9 av 10 i betyg efter första lyss [âŠ]

I watched so many K-pop music videos this winter, on a mission to learn how they can be so captivating and awesome. It was fun. And then I thought: Why not watch the rest of the worldâs music videos too? I started doing that, but⊠I quickly learned that, for some reason, the Western mindset of â [âŠ]

NOTE: Because 100 embedded YouTube videos was too much for browsers to handle, I use small thumbnails that you can click on instead to watch the videos. Here it is: The list! Iâve locked myself into the magical world of K-pop, and used the whole last month to binge-watch almost all K-pop music vid [âŠ]

Hi! Have you ever looked at a music video and wondered how it was made? Apparently, thatâs easy to figure out. A great example of a good music video is âPink Lifeâ by Pink Guy (also known as Filthy Frank, also known as Joji). Letâs start with a diagram: [âŠ]

In the music video for âHamidashi PARADISEâ by Youâll Melt More!, youâre encouraged to take part of it like a game. You choose your favorite member, âdragâ the screen to make choices, and get a unique storyline depending on it (and youâll probably get a bad ending). Itâs the most int [âŠ]

Yes, I write about games now too. Get used to it. I do whatever I want! I played through Undertale, also known as the game where you get different endings depending on how many monsters you choose to kill or spare. Itâs created mostly by one single person, Toby Fox, and is probably most known for [âŠ]

Donât know the backstory? The year was 2018, and the Swedish YouTuber PewDiePie declared war against the Indian music company T-Series, who were about to pass him in having the most subscribers on YouTube. With the diss song âbitch lasagnaâ he proved that one single man can destroy a big corpo [âŠ]

Ruby and $crim were two cousins who rapped on their own songs separately, but neither of their careers didnât really get off before they started writing songs about their life troubles, formed a duo and started calling themselves â$UICIDEBOY$â. The groupâs career started on Soundcloud in 201 [âŠ]

Efter att ha lyssnat igenom en massa lĂ„tar av Frej Larsson, sĂ„ tĂ€nkte jag försöka förstĂ„ vad det Ă€r som gör honom stĂ€ndigt aktuell och aldrig passĂ©, vilket han i mina ögon varit under de senaste 15 Ă„ren. Vad Ă€r det som gör honom sĂ„ Ă€kta, tidlös och intressant? Frej Larssons liv Ă€r [âŠ]

Mange Makers Ă€r tillbaka! Efter att ha varit borta sedan 2016 visar de sig Ă„ter i offentligheten, och har under Ă„ret slĂ€ppt bĂ„de en dokumentĂ€rserie, nĂ„gra musikvideos och allra senast det nya albumet âR3UNIONâ. Kulturellt sett kan de pĂ„stĂ„s ha varit borta Ă€nda sedan 2011, eftersom de Ă [âŠ]

Back in 2016, I was surfing Youtube, and found a random live video by the garage punk rock band âROCK-A-CHERRYâ. They were really cool. Just listen to this great song! Hear the sloppy guitar solo! And the lovely voice crack at 0:35! (see the video under the paragraph) I immediately loved their m [âŠ]

The album âCollectionâ by K-pop group 2NE1 is actually an album in Japanese made for the Japanese market, but at the same time itâs a pretty accurate summary of K-pop from around 2008-2012. The video âThe music that defined the 2010sâ claims that music from this time was hard and loud, whi [âŠ]

Even though the album â007â by Lee Jung Hyun starts off with 3-4 loud gun shots followed by Lee Jung Hyun whispering âbad boyâŠâ, it isnât as unique and crazy as her earlier works. Itâs great pop with great hooks (âdididididi it girl, daradada dadada, dididididi it girlâŠâ) thatâ [âŠ]

âWalk Through Exits Onlyâ by Philip H. Anselmo & The Illegals is still one of the weirdest albums Iâve heard. Confusing chaos. Totally impossible to predict what rythm or part is coming next. What I love is that this isnât the underground album he made before he got famous, itâs the one he [âŠ]

hy4_4yh (Hyper YoYo) is a weird group. Theyâre in a way like 80s rappers, but in Japan, in the 2000s, rapping mostly over Indonesian rave music (âfunkotâ). Or rock, or punk, or pop, or hiphop. Theyâre incredibly⊠like they are. Wearing cool hiphop hats, doing dope dances and signs, and scr [âŠ]

Ten years later â is it really that bad? No, itâs very good. And weird. The metal screams arenât whatâs weird, whatâs weird is to use them for screaming the words âitâs boppinâ for sureâ. They distort and autotune the screams, and use them in all places possible (compared to before [âŠ]

Seiko Oomori is fun and crazy, and Iâm not sure if I should be her best friend or stay a few feet away from her. I was still unsure while watching her Youtube live, getting punched by her from inside a karaoke room on the other side of the screen. Seiko rarely stops entertaining, and can play melo [âŠ]

Schoochie! Heâs not the most well-known rapper, and he hasnât really created any critically acclaimed masterpieces, but he kind of created the whole trap genre. He may sound similar to many others in the genre today, but in the early 00s he was quite unique. Not even âTrap Musikâ by T.I., kn [âŠ]

âHoneyâ is a rock album with introspective and emotional lyrics, sometimes bordering to punk and sometimes to balads. Soundwise they have ditched most of their pop influences, but itâs still present in their choruses, with guitarist Mami Sasazaki giving the album a lot of hit quality with her [âŠ]
